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"So, you advocate logging in daily as root then reiver?  I expect not.....as you've been around long enough using Linux to know the risks of doing it.  I'm not saying that you shouldn't, there are times when you need to login as root, but that is the reason why you set up normal, user accounts, because there is no need to login daily as root and remain logged in completing every single task you achieve as root.  It's simply bad practice, and we should be informing people of good practice and how to use their machine securely than promote letting them login as root simply because they want to. \n  \nEveryone who knows Linux, knows that there is su, gksu or kdesu for obtaining root privileges as and when you need them for particular applications, so that you don't have the whole system granted full root access to the system as and when it wants to.  That makes it far easier to be infected with rootkits, or whatever else.  Also, as well as the fact, that the command you pointed out would cause so much more damage on your system as root, than if a regular user tried it - since the regular user would not have privileges to use it at that level. \n  \nThis however, is one of many many posts here, and you can search this board, and this discussion will go on for ever and ever about the pros and cons of logging in as root, and people will still choose to do it.  And that's up to them, if they so feel it fit's there requirements.  But I'd rather people were educated to use the system correctly, than unsecurely and leaving themselves open to risk and problems. \n"
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